I ask U: Is it still ok to be humble?

By admin, on January 27th, 2009

Is it still ok to be humble? In a professional world that appears to reward self-promotion, how and where does humility fit in?

I don’t know that I have a fully articulated response to this question, but my gut instinct is that, YES, it’s still ok to be humble and succeed in the professional world.

What do you think? Is humility just for the weak? What does it mean to be humble? How do you get ahead and still remain humble?

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Etiquette, Faith at Work, I ask U

Gimme a side o’ GRUMPY with that CRABBY!

By admin, on January 13th, 2009

Image from Cafe Grumpy

This ever happen to you? You’re in a pretty decent mood when all of a sudden you encounter someone who clearly woke up on the wrong side of the continent – maybe a co-worker, a roommate, a family member, someone in the checkout line. You interact with them for all of 1 minute and the next thing you know, you’re feeling crispier than burnt toast. How did that happen? Why did it happen? Did it even need to happen? Like an infectious disease in those scary outbreak movies, that individual’s bad attitude has infected you. What’s even worse is now you’re going to infect the people around you, likely in your workplace. Fortunately, there is an antidote.
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Five slightly unconventional New Year’s resolutions

By admin, on December 29th, 2008

We all make them – those New Year’s resolutions that are bound to be forgotten before Valentine’s Day. Well, here are a few more resolutions to add to your list. They are slightly less conventional, but even if you resolve to do each one just once in 2009, you’ll have done yourself, and a few others, a lot of good.

Resolve to:

  1. be extra kind to that the not-so-kind person(s) in your life
  2. graciously accept all the advice everyone wants to offer you; then apply only the ones that make the most sense for you
  3. spend five fewer minutes a day worrying about your burdens
  4. spend five more minutes a day with someone you love
  5. get to know, and hopefully appreciate, that person in your res. hall, class, office, gym, (where ever!) about whom you’ve secretly been thinking, “I’m sure glad I’m NOT that guy!”

What other resolutions would you add to the list?

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